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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 7th, 2018

High Scalability

million : new image/caption training set; 32,408,715 : queries sent to Pwned Passwords; 53% : Memory ICs Total 2018 Semi Capex; 11 : story Facebook datacenter prison in Singapore; $740,357 : ave cost of network downtime; Quotable Quotes: @BenedictEvans : Recorded music: $18 billion. Matthew Dillon : This is *very* impressive efficiency.

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PostgreSQL Performance Tuning: Optimizing Database Parameters for Maximum Efficiency

Percona

This blog was originally published in August 2018 and was updated in May 2023. Selecting the appropriate index type, creating composite indexes, and regularly analyzing and reindexing the database can substantially improve query speed. Out of the box, the default PostgreSQL configuration is not tuned for any particular workload.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 5th, 2018

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Because the device in question is a high-speed unit designed to process a high volume of ballots for an entire county, hacking just one of these machines could enable anattacker to flip the Electoral College and determine the outcome of a presidential election?. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever.

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Bringing AV1 Streaming to Netflix Members’ TVs

The Netflix TechBlog

by Liwei Guo , Ashwin Kumar Gopi Valliammal , Raymond Tam , Chris Pham , Agata Opalach , Weibo Ni AV1 is the first high-efficiency video codec format with a royalty-free license from Alliance of Open Media (AOMedia), made possible by wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and resources. The specification of AV1 was published in 2018.

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Introducing SVT-AV1: a scalable open-source AV1 framework

The Netflix TechBlog

In 2018, AOM has published a specification for the AV1 video codec. The encoder can typically be improved years after the standard has been frozen including varying speed and quality trade-offs. Netflix interest in SVT-AV1 Reference software typically focuses on the best possible compression at the expense of encoding speed.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 29th, 2018

High Scalability

Google's approach to pricing is, "do it as efficiently and quickly as possible, and we'll make sure that's the cheapest option". I got to work on something so big a cloud provider learned about their scale bottlenecks. jedberg : Despite being a strong advocate for AWS, this is where I will say Google completely outshines Amazon.

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SVT-AV1: an open-source AV1 encoder and decoder

The Netflix TechBlog

As mentioned in our earlier blog post , Intel and Netflix have been collaborating on the SVT-AV1 encoder and decoder framework since August 2018. The teams have been working closely on SVT-AV1 development, discussing architectural decisions, implementing new tools, and improving compression efficiency.